Children’s Community Support Collaborative

The Children’s Community Support Collaborative (CCSC) provides comprehensive mental health services tailored to the unique needs of youth ages 6-22 and their families. Our services, which take place at home, in the community and at school, focus on the family as a whole to help youth who have experienced trauma or mental health challenges remain safe within their homes and communities.

Our team prioritizes relationships and gives voice to youth and caregivers. Each family is served by a core team, including a Master’s-level clinician and Community Outreach Worker, which provides intensive in-home family treatment, comprehensive care coordination, mentorships and connections to informal and formal community-based resources.

For youth who cannot live safely at home, services include therapeutic group care and planned respite care. If such services are needed, our team works closely with families to support youth in returning home as quickly as possible.

HOW WE HELP
The focus of our treatment is to strengthen youth and family connections and to address obstacles to successful functioning of the youth in the community with their family.

OUR SERVICES:

• Home-Based Family Therapy
• Comprehensive Case Management
• Outreach Counseling, with a focus on community integration and skill building
• Occupational Therapy
• Young Adult Peer Mentorship
• Family Partnerships and Parent Coaching
• Psychopharmacology Consultation
• Caregiver Support Groups
• Assistance Bolstering Natural Supports
• Connections to Community Resources and Special Services
• Therapeutic Group Care for Youth Ages 8-20
• 24-hour Crisis Support

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma
• Therapeutic Crisis Intervention
• Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy
• Restorative Practices
• Permanency Planning

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Collaborative Referrals

The Children's Community Support Collaborative is a closed referral system; we are only able to accept children and families referred by the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health who have been assessed to be at risk for, or in need of, out-of-home placement due to safety concerns related to trauma or mental health challenges and who:

• have a viable adult resource(s), such as family, kin, or a pre-adoptive foster family, who are willing and able to participate in intensive in-home community-based services to meet the youth's needs and help the youth remina in or return to live in the community.
• are working toward remaining at, or returning to, home or a community-based home setting with less intensive support.
• are attending school regularly.

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